b. Two long threads
initiated by my post "Economist Kern Alexander Explains the
Problem with School Choice" [Hake (2013a) at
<http://bit.ly/WIdRH5>. On 13 Feb 2013 08:15-0800 the threads
had grown to (a) over 40 posts on Phys-L list with OPEN archives at
<http://bit.ly/Ve9Sof>; and (b) 26 posts on the Physoc list at
<http://bit.ly/Y7k7rg> (to gain access you may need to obtain a
password by typing your email address into a slot).

c. Andrew
Maul's
(2013)"Review of Charter School Performance in
Michigan" at
<http://bit.ly/WHiO6R>. The abstract reads in part: "The
Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford
University conducted an analysis of the differences in student
performance at charter schools and traditional public schools in the
state of Michigan. In contrast to the majority of prior evidence
regarding charter effects in the U.S. which tends to show no impact,
the study finds an overall small positive effect of being in a charter
school. . . . . . . . even setting aside issues with the study's
methods, the actual magnitudes of the effects reported are extremely
small."

d. Gene
Glass's
(2011)
"Charter
Schools: Making Public Schools Private" at
<http://bit.ly/YXwZmO>. Glass ends with: "It is difficult
to see that anything other than the White voting public's desire to
simultaneously cheapen public education and create quasi-private
schooling for their children is driving, in its larger part, the
charter school movement."

e. Linda
Darling-Hammond's (2010b) "Restoring Our Schools" at
<http://bit.ly/VSI9fy>. Darling-Hammond writes: "Race to the Top requires that states
expand charters but fails to assure quality and ensure access, despite
evidence from the largest national study to date (conducted at
Stanford University's Hoover Institution) that charter schools more
frequently underperform than outperform their counterparts serving
similar students; evidence from a UCLA study indicating that charters
exacerbate segregation; and evidence from many studies that charters
serve significantly fewer special education students and
English-language learners."*************************************************

Hake, R.R. 2013.
"The Contentious Controversy Over School Choice,"
online on the OPEN! AERA-H archives at <http://bit.ly/YdSVsX>.
Post of 13 Feb 2013 11:23:04 -0800 to AERA-H and Net-Gold. The
abstract and link to the complete post are being transmitted to
several discussion lists and are also on my blog "Hake'sEdStuff"
at <http://bit.ly/Y98lN6> with a provision for
comments.